posted at 9:31 am on January 21, 2013 by Allahpundit

The organizers insist he wasn’t kicked offstage for criticizing Obama, just for playing the same song over and over, but then they also said afterward that the concert was an “event celebrating innovation/startups” and that appears to be not quite the full truth either. Per their website, it was billed as an “Inaugural celebration … celebrating President Obama’s 2nd term and honoring innovation.” When you’re putting together an event like that, naturally you want your headliner to be a guy like this:

During an interview with CBS in 2011, he called the president a terrorist. Lupe said, “My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama and the United States of America. I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism.”

“You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists.”

Lupe has also criticized Obama’s stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has stated that he does not vote in elections because of his anti-establishment views.

Sure enough, the key bit here has him griping about Obama’s inaction over Gaza. Not long ago, making the president uncomfortable on inauguration weekend by criticizing his policy on the Palestinians would have earned you some truth-to-power cred from mainstream liberals. With a Democrat in the White House, though, the highest-profile media outlet that’s likely to reward this guy with airtime is Democracy Now. If he was smart, he would have rapped about drone strikes instead. The left still at least pretends, sort of, to care about that.

Maybe Fox News will have him on? An O’Reilly/Fiasco interview would be glorious.

Update: My mistake. Fiasco already appeared on “The Factor” two years ago. And it was indeed glorious.

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With a DemocratProgressive/Liberal in the White House, though, the highest-profile media outlet that’s likely to reward this guy with airtime is Democracy Now. If he was smart, he would have rapped about drone strikes instead. The left still at least pretends, sort of, to care about that.

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No, you will not find a liberal who gives a d@mn about drone strikes, NDAA or a tripling of domestic surveillance under Obama.

I wonder what event organizer gets dropped into the crocodile pit for booking Lupe in the first place (not that whoever booked him or their bosses really disagree with Lupe’s beliefs — the anger would be simply for booking someone who doesn’t understand situational outrage and would criticize The One in a public forum).

I know we’re supposed to go with the Zeitgeist and all that. But I don’t think we should celebrate anything a rapper says or does, pro- or anti-Obama.

Just to educate myself I went to YouTube and watched some of the most-watched videos by Kanye et al. And it’s everything we know and fear it to be: vicious, nasty, base, and awful.

I understand musical taste is generational, and I’m well aware of what my parents thought of Jimi Hendrix and what he meant to we Boomers. Nevertheless, we’re perfectly entitled to call garbage garbage and reject it en masse.

I think there will be a marked improvement in the economy. The jobless rate will be under 6 percent and dropping when he leaves office. We’ll finally be out of Afghanistan and able to concentrate on needs here at home, like the infrastructure. Public optimism will be high because we’ll be back on track as a nation again.

No, he won’t be perfect, but I think he’s going to break the second term jinx and leave office with sky-high popularity.

Thanks for the answer. Not gonna flame you but you certainly paint a rosey picture there. From where I sit, I see Obama leaving office responsible for this:

Federal debt: $24 trillion (do you trust CBO projections?)
Unemployment still above 7% (shifting to even more part time work)
A younger generation unable to get out the current situation.
Immigration not resolved.
Spending still at 23-25% of GDP (all savings in “out years”)
Another blowup in the Middle East that he will not be able to ignore.
Complete alienation from his base by 2015 as they start to realize that he has made 2016 an impossibility.

I can’t say he will go down as the worst, but I can see his legacy being one of utter disappointment as the USA experiences a list decade. History will note obstructionism as a partial factor but ultimately it will define him as the great hope just not up to the task.

Interesting that instead of just shutting down his mike and turning off the stage lights, they had to send in what amounted to a bunch of Chicago-style street thugs to physically remove him, like someone was making a statement or something about what happens when you criticize Dear Leader in public.

The fact that the Obama faithful can’t be satisfied merely with his re-election, but need to rub everyone’s nose in it (Hi,Chumpy!)
will, I fear, lead to a scenario we have seen throughout history; one group becomes so disgusted with another that they begin to “wonder” what life could/would be like without them. That’s when pogroms and round-ups begin with “undesirables.” Don’t think it can’t happen here. The pendulum ALWAYS swings back, and sometimes harder than you’d like. Right now we have children watching all of this vitriol, and not all of them are faithful little Progressives. Eventually they’ll grow up, and be the leaders of the future. Chumpthreads does his children no service when he acts like such a poor winner.

I think there will be a marked improvement in the economy. The jobless rate will be under 6 percent and dropping when he leaves office. We’ll finally be out of Afghanistan and able to concentrate on needs here at home, like the infrastructure. Public optimism will be high because we’ll be back on track as a nation again.

No, he won’t be perfect, but I think he’s going to break the second term jinx and leave office with sky-high popularity.

chumpThreads on January 21, 2013 at 10:26 AM

This is pretty funny. Perhaps there will be a marked improvement in the economy for no reason at all, and jobs will magically be created bringing down the the jobless rate while we throw more regulations and taxes at job creators at the same time. And maybe terrorist Muslims will leave us alone if we leave them alone. Hey, we might even be able to pay off the debt by harvesting money off the money tree growing inside the treasury building too. Good thinking Chump!!

He’s anti-American, saying, among other things, that America is the primary cause of terrorism in the world.

mchristian on January 21, 2013 at 9:46 AM

That in itself wouldn’t have been enough to get him kicked out, since most dumocrats think that way themselves.
But he criticized “the ONE.” That’s the only thing he did wrong in their eyes. Sacrilege!